Kevin, a stigmatic youth, is hunted by dark forces in order to eliminate him. Due to a series of deaths involving 11 people, perhaps false and real, who display stigmata Scully and Mulder become involved.
This is a good episode not involving the arc-myth. It is also one involving religion where the doubter/believer roles of Scully and Mulder are reversed.
Casting is excellent with Michael Berryman playing a strange character named Owen where he is first seen as an evil kidnapper, but is actually Kevin's protector. When the enigmatic character "Simon" almost kills Owen Scully becomes Kevin's only hope for survival. Scully develops faith in her need to protect Kevin while Mulder is strangely skeptical.
This episode is quite good in the once and a while role reversal series. The story keeps the viewer invested and brings Scully's beliefs, based on her religious convictions, to the fore. We actually see Scully believing in things she may not completely understand quite naturally in spite of her scientific logic-based right brain leanings. One almost wants to slap Mulder and say if you are so all-fired able to believe in things unseen what's wrong with you? That is the tension under the storyline which is tense in itself. A good episode overall.
This is a good episode not involving the arc-myth. It is also one involving religion where the doubter/believer roles of Scully and Mulder are reversed.
Casting is excellent with Michael Berryman playing a strange character named Owen where he is first seen as an evil kidnapper, but is actually Kevin's protector. When the enigmatic character "Simon" almost kills Owen Scully becomes Kevin's only hope for survival. Scully develops faith in her need to protect Kevin while Mulder is strangely skeptical.
This episode is quite good in the once and a while role reversal series. The story keeps the viewer invested and brings Scully's beliefs, based on her religious convictions, to the fore. We actually see Scully believing in things she may not completely understand quite naturally in spite of her scientific logic-based right brain leanings. One almost wants to slap Mulder and say if you are so all-fired able to believe in things unseen what's wrong with you? That is the tension under the storyline which is tense in itself. A good episode overall.